I don't really have an entry, but I do have a few links I would like to share. First the fucked up part. That's no moon, thats a Space Station! Yeah, you just have to look. Space is cool, but scary sometimes.
You like bad goth poetry? Then go to this site and it will generate it for you. it is quite amusing.
And last but certainly not least, the Simpson's personality test. It's short and not that in depth, but hey, it is the Simpson's. I forgot to mention who i was in Simpson's personality. I was Marge. Not really expecting that one. Have fun.
Meeting with ABC exectuives:
moron movie producer"Ok, I have this awesome idea for a movie. There is this mob boss, right? And he dies, I don't know, from being old or something, and he leaves the mob in control of his niece or daughter or some young female relative. The catch is that this young woman who is now in charge of the mob is, get this: a fashion student. Yeah, she has no idea how to run the mob; she "designs outfits that don't include a gun holster". So what do you think, ABC executives? Can you financially back my movie idea? Can you play it on one of your many oh so popular channels, like ABC family for instance?
ABC executives: My God, Man! That is freekin' genius! We are not only going to give you money to make this movie, we witll throw in the star of the Sopranos.
moron movie producer: James Gandolfini?!?
ABC executives: No, the other guy, the old bald guy. It will seal the movie as "mob".
moron movie producer: Excellent! I will get on it right away. We cannot deprive the public of such a movie for too long!!!
ABC executive: What is the title?
moron movie producer: I call it "Crimes of Fashion" you know, like crimes of passion, but with fashionable clothes.
ABC executives: Brilliant!!!
"More and more Americans get their news from ABC News, than
from any other source." Shouldn't you?
The above should answer any questions you have about the quality of shows that ABC puts on the air.
I have heard from two former close friends in one week that I haven't talked to in quite a while. It was very good to hear from them and I hope to not be an ass and keep in contact with them.
Joel had some interesting news on his site. Darren Aronofsky is named to be the director of The Watchmen movie. I am excited about that. Those comics were the coolest. In other news like stuff, George Lucas has announced the name of episode 3: "Revenge of the Sith". If you want to know my thoughts on George Lucas and his defiling of the holy trilogy, go here.I am not sure i am going to boycott this movie or not. I do know, however, that George Lucas has pissed a lot of people off. I go to a website called Fark and the people who post on there are nerds just like you and me and are very likely to go and see it, but not without some reserve. Go here and get their versions of what the movie should be called. It is quite amusing.
I have been doing a lot of collages lately and I would like to take pictures of them and post them. Joel told me he could put a gallery up for me to display whatever I wanted and I think i will remind him of that. I also have sketched a little bit lately. I drew a picture of a pretty fairy. Well, it is pretty to me, perhaps to no one else. I have watercolors that i want to play with, too. Just put all that stuff down with the books i want to read, the comics that i want to get through and the story I want to write and I have plenty of stuff to keep me busy. I just need to get off my butt and do them. I am off all day tomorrow, so perhaps I can start on something then. I think that is all i have to report. Later, all.
So…
We saw I, Robot over the weekend. It was a very good movie. I wasn’t expecting much when I went in to it. I have read the short stories that it was based on, and the movie was true to form as far as they went. It was very pretty. The effects were smooth and shiny. The plot was outlined and played out to the point. There was nothing to my attention that was left out. Will Smith was his blockbuster self once again. The movie is based on the three laws of robotics: Law 1 A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Law 2 A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law, and 3 A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. It is a perfect circle of protection. The cool thing is, the robots become so advanced that they evolve and are able to interpret the laws in different ways while keeping the laws the same. The laws are wired into their hardware. Nothing can change the laws, but how the robot interprets them is the key. The ending was a surprise ending as well, you think one guy is causing all this trouble, but it ends up it is someone else completely, in that J.K. Rowling style, but not as brilliant as her I will have to admit, but still very well done. I would also recommend the short stories to anyone. Asimov writes good stuff. I would say that it was the best movie I have seen this summer: Shrek 2, Spiderman2, Anchorman, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Dodge ball, in that order more or less, with I, Robot at the top. I give I, Robot a nice 9.3. You should see this movie. I think you will be surprised.
In other things: I have joined a writing group through Hatrack River. It is a writing workshop put on through Orson Scott Card’s website. I am very excited about it. I am in a group with four other people and we communicate through e-mail and critique and workshop each other’s work. We just got started, but I am very excited about starting this up. I think it is going to help me a lot. I am trying to write a little bit everyday. As many may have noticed I don’t even post as much anymore, I just haven’t have the motivation to write. Been in a slump lately emotionally speaking, but I decided to stop being a fan of Cyclops and use my free time to my advantage. I have been working on my brilliant short story that I think will put me on the map everyday for the last several days and it is coming along nicely. I can’t wait to get it critiqued and work shopped and ready to possibly publish or perhaps get a fat ass check so that I may turn it into a novel. Wouldn’t that be nice? Don’t burst a Pisces’ bubble. I live in a perpetual dream state.
Joel and I went and watched the Lynn Meadow's Discovery Center's production of Charlotte's Web. His sister was in it, she was the Goose. It was a really cute play. I enjoyed it. I heard from an old friend of mine today. I am going to call her tomorrow and see what she is up to since I am off of work. I have to call my insurance representative, too, but that is a different rant all together.
They Might Be Giants + Homestarrunner.com = Experimental Film
here is a Q&A follow up from In These Times after the "Cold Turkey" article. Vonnegut is very cool.
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One wishes that those who have taken over our federal government, and hence the world, by means of a Mickey Mouse coup d’etat, and who have disconnected all the burglar alarms prescribed by the Constitution, which is to say the House and Senate and the Supreme Court and We the People, were truly Christian. But as William Shakespeare told us long ago, “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
And what remains the best-kept secret from the Second World War, because it is so embarrassing, is that Hitler was a Christian, and that his swastika was a Christian cross made of axes, an apt symbol of a political party for Christians of the working class. And there were simpler, unambiguous crosses on all Hitler’s tanks and planes.
Again: One wishes, for the sake of the whole planet, that the people in and around the White House nowadays truly mean it when they say, “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,” and that they respect as children of God the losers, the nobodies so loved by Jesus in the Beatitudes, in His Sermon on the Mount: the poor in spirit, they that mourn, the meek, the merciful, the peace makers and so on.
But such is obviously not the case. George W. Bush smirks and gloats unmercifully as he boasts of his readiness to loose more than a hundred cruise missiles, what I call “Timothy McVeighs,” into the midst of the general population of Iraq, nearly half of whom are children, little boys and girls under the age of 15.
His domestic policies, whose viciousness is peewee in comparison with what he is so eager to do to foreigners who don’t look like him and talk like him, who don’t have names like his, nonetheless inflict pain on those Americans of the sort enumerated in the Beatitudes, by depriving them of decent health care and educations, and of food, shelter and clothing when times are bad. It seems quite possible that his opinion of the American people has been formed while watching the Jerry Springer Show, which is Republican propaganda of the most pernicious kind.
But America was certainly hated all around the world long before this coup d’etat. And we weren’t hated, as George W. Bush would have it, because of our liberty and justice for all. We are hated because our corporations have been the principal deliverers and imposers of new technologies and economic schemes that have wrecked the self-respect, the cultures of men, women and children in so many other societies.
It’s that simple.
What are we to do when confronted by such hatred? Respond to Code Red and runaround like chickens with their heads cut off.
Keep in touch,
Kurt Vonnegut
I found it on his news page on his official site. You can also buy a cd with him reading parts of Slaughter House five from this site. I would like to get this (hint to my husband).
Here is a full Q&A from In These Times that is really cool, too. Okay, that is all I have accomplished in my first two hours of work this morning. That and drinking a cup of tea and eating two pop tarts. I want it to be 5 now, please.
I think Dave Chappelle should sue and get the horrible excuses for television off the air as quickly as possible. There is a show that will be coming on (yeah you guessed it) FOX called Trading Spouses: Meet your New Mommy; but mom's are the only ones trading, dads will be in on it, too. To make me wretch even further ABC was racing with FOX to get the show on the airwaves, but is doing a similar show called Wife Swap. Wife Swap. The show is called Wife Swap. The government is all in a tizzy about gay marriages and we have shows coming on television called Wife Swap and Trading Spouses. Fuck that. Reality shows piss me off. From Cheaters, to Survivor, Real World and Road Rules, Fear Factor, any of the "extreme dating" or Third Wheel shows where the women totally lower themselves to disgusting proportions to get the attention of this guy who thinks more of himself than anything else in the world. Now, I will admit that I have watched The Real World, but I didn't revel in it; it wasn't even that entertaining to me., but damn, it just keeps getting dumber and dumber. People are famous who shouldn't even have friends. These peple have no talent, they are not smart, and they will do anything from degrading themselves in front of their family by pretending some fat, annoying guy is her fiance to get some money to eating penises of various animals to be the champion. Meanwhile I, along with many other people, are struggling to get something published or getting a part in a movie/play. I sigh in exasperation and turn the television off because, my friends, there is nothing on.